I don't know who I'm more pissed at, the Republicans or the Democrats

[mopaul]

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. As the circular firing squad continues......

:eyes:

[Toots]

2. Throw the Bums out....

All of them...

[brainshrub]

3. Democrats.

The Republicans are supposed to be evil. Do you get mad at a snake for being poisonous?

The Democratic leadership dropped the ball when it decided to coddle corporate America instead of being the party for the people.

[benburch]

4. Amen. nt

[TahitiNut]

9. If anything proves the ethical bankruptcy of appeasement ...

... it's the current abomination on the Senate floor. Democratic Senators have fallen all over themselves in the last six years in approving some of the most abhorrent (Fascist) Federalist Society nominees to the federal courts, always in the specious and fraudulent "spirit" of compromise and bipartisanship. Never in our nation's history have such judicial appointments shown such blatant antipathy toward the human rights and civil liberties of The People.

There is no compromise with megalomaniacal fascists! In return for compromise after compromise and appeasement after appeasement, the Democrats in the Senate are now facing an abuse of power and overt lawlessness unprecedented in the Legislative Branch. After the "nuclear option" is triggered, there will be no Senate representation for over 50% of the voters in the U.S.!

Whatever "minority" party exists in the Senate might as well reimburse the taxpayers for their salaries and other compensation - since they will only be supernumeraries. The Reich is now demonstrating absolutely no accommodation for the rules or agreements under which they became candidates for the Senate in the first place. When the 'majority' can unilaterally and without due process, ignore and alter the rules at will, there is no room in this country for any minority.

[BillZBubb]

5. That should be easy: The Repugs

While the Democrats are strategically clueless and continue to believe they are playing a genial game of political checkers with people of honor, the Repugs are trying to remake the US into a neo-fascist state by any means.

It is hard to stomach the continued lack of unified fight inside the Democratic party, but it is impossible the stomach the ruination of our country that the Repugs are orchestrating.

At least the Democrats are resisting however weakly. No contest.

[xchrom]

6. i'm perpetually pissed at republicans.

conservatives as a whole are a danger to civilization.

so let me say here -- i'm thrilled at the rhetoric surrounding the fillibuster -- BUT i'm still so angry about the bankruptcy bill that it really rankles.

wasn't that as important as the judges?

in that case they really let the american people down -- it was heinous.

[Skidmore]

7. I agree, but that damned dog of yours

scared the daylights out of me when this thread opened up.

[Atman]

8. Step back, mo. Big picture...

The dems have been pussies for a reason. Hell, I think most (or at least, many) of the republicans have been spineless weasels for much the same reason...outright fear of the lengths to which the BFEE will go to gets its way.

This is outright bribery and thuggery, from the fake anthrax attack on the Hart Senate Office Building, right on through to the elimation of Dan Rather and the smearing of Newsweek. Most of the candy-asses in congress graduated up from the school board, or politicking the local yokals we laughingly call "red-staters." Mr. Smith went to Washington and found out he was in bed with the Mafia, and he can't get out. Some may not want to get out, cuz the money is a lot better in the back pocket of the Deadly Carcinogen Lobby than at the best law firm back in Podunk. As for BushCo, there is a long history of intimidation with these guys, and one cannot discount Poppy's presence at the helm of the CIA. I, for one, don't believe anyone simply leaves the CIA. You don't get a gold watch and a stern warning to "hey, y'know, all that shit you learned, all those secrets? Well, uh...forget they ever happened! You're a civilian now." Bullshit. At least, not when the secrets are in the hands of people already imbued with the propensity for eee-vil.

Connecting more and more dots, an amusing passtime aparently not undertaken at Poppy's former employer since he left, leads this DUer to also wonder where the hell all the damned money went! $72 million to Halliburton, so they can redistribute their share. Rummy's $9 BILLION pre-war slush fund. The missing Iraqi money. The missing hundreds of millions of dollars of our own military expenditures. Literally BOATLOADS of money simply gone missing, and no one seems the slightest bit concerned. And that is one of the most compelling links, imo. People who we thought were going to care, didn't. We've caved at every step of the way, even when we had 'em dead to rights. Daschle ran home with his tail between his legs so fast it sounded like an old Loony Tunes cartoon. *Yipe yipe yipe*. But save Barbara Boxer and Robert Byrd, with a healthy dose of Conyers, not one elected official has stood up for the constitution or the people over the interests of BushCo and the corporatocracy. Follow the money. Especially when billions of it goes missing and "lawmakers" don't seem to care.

So, write me up in Newsweek, cause I don't have a single corroborating source (except for Rummy's slush fund). But I know a big steaming multi-bllion dollar pile of GOP turds when I see one...they're the piles with shreds of twenties, fifties and hundreds sticking out of them.

[donkeyotay]

10. We'd have to give politicians a lot more cover to expect much of them

Love these:

"The dems have been pussies for a reason" and

"Mr. Smith went to Washington and found out he was in bed with the Mafia"

I don't expect anyone in Washington to grow a spine until either a) people are marching on Washington in large numbers and there's a general strike, or b) the dark side starts being the ones getting run over on sidewalks and whose planes crash.

We either have to see the black ops become white ops or the people decide they really do want their country back before we see our representatives in Washington grow courageous.

[Al-CIAda]

12. The more they refuse to speak TRUTH, the deeper this treason and

corruption will dig itself.

[Al-CIAda]

11. Cynthia McKinney stands alone in wanting to know about the 3.4 BILLION

MISSING from the Pentagon.


WTF????


Great post btw.

[Atman]

15. They hate McKinney

So she must not have got her cut. I think they figured it'd be cheaper and easier to smear her as a crazy lib black woman nut-job. And it worked!

[earth mom]

13. Great Post Atman!

And I agree with you and mopaul. There are far too many dems that have given up and given in to the corruption. We must not turn a blind eye to them. Because, no doubt, along with the abundant GOP piles; there are plenty (though not as many) of stinky democrat turds littering the halls of congress with some greenbacks sticking out of em too.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Politicians chase the votes. We mistakenly believe they are "leaders".

The politicians, of either party, are well aware that they can only be "successful" by garnering enough votes to put them into office. In order to do so, they have to raise enough money to convince people to vote for them. They are more beholden to the "campaign contributors" than the people or ideals. That being the case, the politicians most willing to bend their ethics or ideals to get the money are the very ones most likely to be elected.

Our "democracy" is a corrupt sham that is run by the capitalists.